- From www.futurelearn.com
Battery Storage: Understanding the Battery Revolution
- 3 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Starts on January 20, 2019
- Ends on February 10, 2019
Course details
Syllabus
- The importance of energy storage
- Needs for energy storage and storage alternatives
- Energy storage in the power and transportation sectors
- Energy storage and our energy future
- Large scale battery production
- Supply chain and battery manufacturing process
- Energy storage application: industrial products
- The business case of electrification for underground mining
- Environmental considerations of batteries for underground mining
Prerequisite
This course is for professionals and postgraduate academics with energy, business, financial, economic and engineering backgrounds, but anyone interested in developing their knowledge of energy storage and enhancing their professional development (from policy makers to management consultants) might find it useful.
Instructors
Dimitra Maleka
Mechanical and Energy engineer with MSc in Sustainable Energy. I have worked on several renewable energy projects. Currently a digital learning manager at InnoEnergy with a focus on battery storage.
Editor
Platform
FutureLearn is a massive open online course (MOOC) learning platform founded in December 2012.
It is a company launched and wholly owned by The Open University in Milton Keynes, England. It is the first UK-led massive open online course learning platform, and as of March 2015 included 54 UK and international University partners and unlike similar platforms includes four non-university partners: the British Museum, the British Council, the British Library and the National Film and Television School.